DOT_MANAGEMENT.md

All credit for this method goes to jaagr.
Same goes for following documentation.
Modified by ecly.

Management

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Files are added to the repository by calling dot add $HOME/.config/file and when issuing git status - only changes to files explicitly added will be shown.

To get a list of files not tracked by git, use dot untracked or dot untracked-at $HOME/path/to/foo/bar to only show files in a specific subdirectory.

alias dot='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dots.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'

Setup

git init --bare $HOME/.dots.git
dot remote add origin https://github.com/ecly/dotfiles.git

Configuration

dot config status.showUntrackedFiles no

# Useful aliases
dot config alias.untracked "status -u ."
dot config alias.untracked-at "status -u"

Usage

# Use the dot alias like you would use the git command
dot status
dot add --update ...
dot commit -m "..."
dot push

# Listing files (not tracked by git)
dot untracked
dot status -u .config/

# Listing files (tracked by git)
dot ls-files
dot ls-files .config/polybar/

Replication

git clone --recursive --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.dots.git https://github.com/ecly/dotfiles.git /tmp/dots
rsync -rvl --exclude ".git" /tmp/dots/ $HOME/
rm -r /tmp/dots
dot submodule update --init --recursive $HOME/

Extra

If you don't want eg. LICENSE.md and README.md to clutter your home dir.

git update-index --assume-unchanged LICENSE.md

To later undo this do:

git update-index --no-assume-unchanged LICENSE.md